 Stories of the "manong", Filipino migrants displaced from their homeland and faced with the racism and challenges of a foreign land, is a common theme in many Filipino-American writers' works.These include most prominently, Carlos Bulosan (America Is in the Heart), a Filipino migrant himself, and several stories by Bienvenido Santos "Scent of Apples" and "The Day the Dancers Came").In the United States, the term has been used for the manong generation, which is used to describe the first generation of Filipino emigrants to come, en masse, to the country.